Tlatelolco, Verano del 68: Nov 29 - Dec 5
Tlatelolco, Verano del ‘68
(México, 103 min., 2013, Spanish w/ English
subtitles)
Two young individuals from different
walks of life fall in love during their involvement in a student movement
against Mexico’s authoritarian rule in 1968.
Director:
Carlos Bolado
Digital Gym Cinema
Nov 29 to Dec 5 6:00 p.m.
2921 El Cajon Blvd.North Park, 92104
Synopsis: An across-the-tracks love
story, well-off girl and a working class boy, set against Mexico’s Tiananmen:
the 1968 student protests and strikes that climaxed in the Tlatelolco Square
massacre of students by security forces. The number of deaths was covered up by
Mexico’s PRI ruling government, which hosted the Olympic Games 10 days later.
About the Fence: Oct 10-Nov 6
San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery
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Acerca de la
Cerca/About the Fence
An exhibition of photographic works and installations by Tijuana and San Diego artists: Carmela Castrejon, Maria Teresa Fernandez and Paul Turounet. Video by Ana Teresa Fernandez.
Exhibit runs October 10 - November 6, 2013
Gallery Talk: Wednesday, October 30, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
The border fence separates the U.S.
and Mexico, San Diego and Tijuana but it is also acts as a site of
interventions and interactions. In this exhibition artists from both cities
examine the human and social impact of this impenetrable barrier.
Paul Turounet uses sections of fence salvaged from Border State Park in San Diego to build a corrugated steel wall 10 by 40 feet in the gallery space. Attached to this framework are images from his project Estamos Buscando – We’re Looking For (2002-09). On his motorcycle and by foot, Turounet traveled the migrant trails to capture intimate portraits of the crossers. He printed the sepia toned images on aluminum photographic plates to resemble the old “retablos” from Mexican Catholic folk tradition. The migrants received a copy of their portrait, a record and memento of their unusual encounter.
Maria Teresa Fernandez observes the fence from the Tijuana side and for several years has been interested in this physical barrier as a canvas where artistic expression, religious and political beliefs are expressed. She documents murals painted for the Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos; crude wooden crosses to remember the men, women and children that die attempting to cross; and political slogans, calls for protest. LA Times critic David Pagel says: "(Her) tightly framed pictures bring visitors nose to nose with the fence and arm’s length from the often poignant mementos left beside it by people whose lives it has affected."
Fernandez subject matter inspired her daughter, Ana Teresa Fernandez, to create a performance and installation titled Erasing the Border/Borrando la Frontera. In the video documentation of this piece we see Ana Teresa dressed in a tight little black cocktail dress applying blue paint to the steel posts of the border fence where it meets the Pacific Ocean. The artist, here, actively engaged in a visual process of erasure of that barrier.
Carmela Castrejon has been exploring border issues in her individual work and also as part of binational artist collectives such as the Border Art Workshop/Taller the Arte Fronterizo and Las Comadres. She also participated in several of the IN-SITE installations. Castrejon will present assemblages that combine photographic images, cutouts and recycled objects. The hands of an indigenous woman weaving as a cutout attached to an old wooden picture frame, the craft and tradition that connect us to the larger social and historical narrative of a border region that is at once American and Mexican, old and modern, promising and dire.
Paul Turounet uses sections of fence salvaged from Border State Park in San Diego to build a corrugated steel wall 10 by 40 feet in the gallery space. Attached to this framework are images from his project Estamos Buscando – We’re Looking For (2002-09). On his motorcycle and by foot, Turounet traveled the migrant trails to capture intimate portraits of the crossers. He printed the sepia toned images on aluminum photographic plates to resemble the old “retablos” from Mexican Catholic folk tradition. The migrants received a copy of their portrait, a record and memento of their unusual encounter.
Maria Teresa Fernandez observes the fence from the Tijuana side and for several years has been interested in this physical barrier as a canvas where artistic expression, religious and political beliefs are expressed. She documents murals painted for the Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos; crude wooden crosses to remember the men, women and children that die attempting to cross; and political slogans, calls for protest. LA Times critic David Pagel says: "(Her) tightly framed pictures bring visitors nose to nose with the fence and arm’s length from the often poignant mementos left beside it by people whose lives it has affected."
Fernandez subject matter inspired her daughter, Ana Teresa Fernandez, to create a performance and installation titled Erasing the Border/Borrando la Frontera. In the video documentation of this piece we see Ana Teresa dressed in a tight little black cocktail dress applying blue paint to the steel posts of the border fence where it meets the Pacific Ocean. The artist, here, actively engaged in a visual process of erasure of that barrier.
Carmela Castrejon has been exploring border issues in her individual work and also as part of binational artist collectives such as the Border Art Workshop/Taller the Arte Fronterizo and Las Comadres. She also participated in several of the IN-SITE installations. Castrejon will present assemblages that combine photographic images, cutouts and recycled objects. The hands of an indigenous woman weaving as a cutout attached to an old wooden picture frame, the craft and tradition that connect us to the larger social and historical narrative of a border region that is at once American and Mexican, old and modern, promising and dire.
PARKING IS FREE DURING EVENT IN THE FACULTY A LOTS
(Adjacent and
across from the flagpole)
Gallery Hours: MTW 11-4 pm, Thursday 11 – 8 pm. Closed Fridays, weekends and school holidays.
Gallery Director: Alessandra Moctezuma, amoctezu@sdccd.edu
Gallery Coordinator: Pat Vine, pvine@sdccd.edu
San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery: 7250 Mesa College Dr., San Diego, CA 92111
Gallery Hours: MTW 11-4 pm, Thursday 11 – 8 pm. Closed Fridays, weekends and school holidays.
Gallery Director: Alessandra Moctezuma, amoctezu@sdccd.edu
Gallery Coordinator: Pat Vine, pvine@sdccd.edu
San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery: 7250 Mesa College Dr., San Diego, CA 92111
Devon Peña: Oct 24
Devon Peña
"Environmental Justice and the State of Exception"
October 24, Thursday 6:30 pm
University of San Diego
Salomon Hall
Devon Pena is the National Association of
Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) scholar of the year in 2013 and is a strong
voice for environmental justice, Chicana and Chicano culture, food sovereignty,
and cultural recovery for Indigenous/Latino peoples.
Malalai Joya: Oct 22
Malalai Joya
October 22nd at 11:10 am
City College
Room V101
She is an Afghani woman's rights and anti-war activist who
was instrumental in advocating for women and opposing war and occupation before
she was driven into exile. She is now taking her campaign international.
For more info see:
Tell President Obama to remove the immigrant imprisonment quota
Dear Enrique,
News flash: President
Obama’s 2015 budget requests a wasteful and dangerous policy that
indiscriminately jams immigrants into private prisons.
Immigrants who have committed no
crimes or only minor crimes are being stuffed into prisons to meet an arbitrary
immigrant body count quota passed by the House of Representatives in 2006. That
means ICE has a sick incentive to rip immigrant families apart, profile
Latinos in border communities, and give billions of dollars away to private
prison corporations like GEO Group -- all for no good reason.1
President Obama could push back
against this policy. Instead, his budget request legitimizes it. It’s
one thing for GOP extremists to request a policy like this -- it’s another
thing entirely when a President who claims to support our communities does.
Some people call it the “bed
mandate.” We call it the immigrant imprisonment quota. Whatever
you call it, it’s bad news -- so why does President Obama seem to support it?
The immigrant imprisonment quota
is exactly what it sounds like: ICE is required to hold at least 34,000
immigrants each day in private detention centers. This quota is the main reason
so many immigrants who haven’t committed any crimes are arrested and detained
by ICE.
Putting someone in a private
detention center costs $160 each day, or $2 billion each year -- a huge
giveaway to private prison companies like GEO Group. Meanwhile,
alternatives to incarceration cost as little as $17 per day, are effective, and
they keep immigrant families together as they wait for due process.
Stopping Obama’s budget request is
an important first step in eliminating this policy for good. And now that 65
members of the House of Representatives have sent the president a letter
opposing it, there isn’t a better time to pressure Obama to do his part.2
Thanks and ¡adelante!
Arturo, Jesús, Erick, Erica and the rest of the Presente.org Team
Arturo, Jesús, Erick, Erica and the rest of the Presente.org Team
P.S. Can you donate $5 to support our work? We
rely on contributions from people like you to see campaigns like this through.
Sources:
1. Controversial quota drives immigration detention boom." Washington Post, Oct. 13 2013.
2. Letter to President Obama - End Immigrant Detention Bed Mandate."Project Vote Smart, Sept. 26, 2013.
1. Controversial quota drives immigration detention boom." Washington Post, Oct. 13 2013.
2. Letter to President Obama - End Immigrant Detention Bed Mandate."Project Vote Smart, Sept. 26, 2013.
National Day of Action: Oct 5
Facebook event: Oct5
Join thousands across the
country to tell Congress:
Just and fair immigration
reform is necessary
Communities demand
immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship, protects workers' rights,
promotes family unity, and stops the militarization of border communities.
Take a stand and march with
your community...
MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW
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Unase con miles por todo el país para exijirle al Congreso:
Una reforma migratoria justa y equitativa es necesaria
Comunidades exigen una reforma migratoria que contenga un camino hacía
la ciudadanía, que proteja a los derechos laborales, promueve la unidad
familiar, y pone un alto a la militarización de las comunidades fronterizas.
Unase al esfuerzo y marche con su comunidad...
EN LOS PROXIMOS DIAS SE LE AGREGARAN MAS DETALLES
For more information // Para más detalles:
oct5sd@gmail.com
Queer in Aztlán: Oct 3
Queer in
Aztlán: Chicano Male Recollections of Consciousness and Coming Out
By Gibrán Güido
Thursday, October 3 from
12:45 – 2:10 p.m.
Room MS-162
A former
City College student, Gibrán Güido is a doctoral candidate in
the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. In
2010, he organized the Fifth Annual Queer People of Color Conference at San
Diego State University and co-organized the National Association for Chicana and
Chicano Studies Third Jotería Conference. He is a recipient of the Richard P.
Geyser Ethics Memorial Scholarship.
His book, Queer
in Aztlán: Chicano Male Recollections of Consciousness and Coming Out, is
an anthology explores issues of queer youth identity, sexuality, masculinity,
homophobia, sexism, and violence in Mexican and American culture.
The volume
gives readers the opportunity to value deeply personal narratives from queer
Chicanos/Mexicanos and makes it possible for them to understand and sympathize
with the stories’ protagonists.
Güido
co-edited the publication with San Diego State Chicano Studies professor
Adelaida Del Castillo.
Reyna Grande: Oct 2
Reyna Grande
8th Annual San Diego City College International Book Fair
Wednesday, October 02, 2013 11:10 am
Room V-101
Author of The Distance Between Us and Across a Hundred
Mountains.
She was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle
Award.
Update Struggle Ethnic Studies in AZ: Oct 2
Update on Struggle for Ethnic Studies in Arizona
Oct 2: 7 pm
Centro Cultural de la Raza
Directions
The House I Live In- Oct 1
Tuesday, Oct 1, 12:45 – 2:10 p.m.
Room V-101
San Diego City College
Scholarships Fall 2013
San Diego City College Foundation
Scholarship Applications are available NOW!
Deadline: December 9, 2013
Scholarship opportunities are available exclusively for City
College students.
APPLYING IS AS EASY AS 1 - 2 - 3!
- Review available scholarships for eligibility. Applications and other important information available at: City Scholarships
- Complete scholarship application(s). Be sure to answer all of the questions and include all requested materials.
-
Submit your application(s) on or before 12 Noon on December
9, 2013
Recipients will be selected by respective scholarship
committees in mid-March.
Questions? Visit http://www.sdcity.edu/scholarships/
Early Scholarships
Scholarships that will close early: visit
Day of Activism: Sept 16 and 17
Day of Activism
Service Learning Program
Monday, Sept 16, 11 am
Ollin Calli and Maquiladoras, Tijuana
CAFE
Tuesday, Sept 17, 11 am
Binational Conference on Border Issues
El Coyote Newspaper
MeCHA
Mixtec Cultural Exchange
San Diego City College
Room MS 462
Venta de Comida por Mujeres Kumiai en el Tijuana ArtWalk: Sept 14
Apoyemos a l@s primer@s poblador@s de estas tierras con la compra de
unos ricos frijolitos, tortillas de harina y una riquisima machacha. Apartir de
las 12pm el sabado 14 de Septiembre. Pasaje Gomez, Zona Centro.Entradas por la
Calle Madero y Ave. Revolucion.
Facebook event: Kumiai
Map on Avenida Revolución: Ollin Calli
Exploring Campus Services: Sept 3
Exploring Campus Services: A Panel
Discussion
Health Services, Mental Health
Counseling, Veteran & Military Resources, and EOPS
Tuesday, September 3
11:10 a.m. – 12:35 p.m. V
101
Dear ACLU supporter,
Using misinformation, deception, and coercion, Border Patrol and
immigration agents have pressured hundreds, if not thousands, of Mexican
nationals with deep roots here in the United States into forfeiting their right
to a fair hearing and a chance to live here lawfully. The ACLU challenged the
practice that we call "coerced expulsion" in federal court today.
Call our hotline (619.398.4189) or fill our our online form if you or anyone
you know has experienced the deceptive practice the government calls
"voluntary departure."
There is nothing voluntary about expelling people unjustly, and
the worst of it is, our tax dollars are being used to trick individuals
into signing away their rights and ripping families apart. This is
inconsistent with Americans' values.
Gerardo Hernandez-Contreras was recently pulled over by a San
Diego police officer for talking on his cell phone. Because Gerardo did not have
proper identification with him, the police officer called immigration agents,
who quickly handcuffed him and took him into custody. His wife Aide rushed to
the scene and had their lawyer on the phone, who warned under no
circumstances to sign anything.
But the agents threatened that if Gerardo refused to sign a
so-called "voluntary departure" form, he could be detained for months
before seeing an immigration judge. Gerardo was never told that he could be
released on his own recognizance or bond if he chose not to agree to
"voluntary departure." He was also never informed that once he signed
the expulsion form, he would not be able to reenter the United States for ten
years.
Terrified, Gerardo signed the form, believing, as the agents
told him, that he could "fix his papers" once he arrived in Mexico.
At 2 a.m., just hours after being stopped for talking on his cell phone, he was
left in Tijuana. Gerardo, who has lived in San Diego since he was 14 years old,
had no ties to Tijuana. Sadly, this is a common occurrence in San Diego.
"Our lives are broken now," said Gerardo's wife, Aide.
How can you help?
Call our hotline (619.398.4189) or fill our our online form if you or
anyone you know has experienced the deceptive practice the government
calls "voluntary departure."- Share this message on
- Watch and share Cuentame's "Rampant Border Patrol Abuse Exposed"
video (on YouTube), detailing the horrendous governmental practice of
deceiving Mexican nationals into signing away their right to a fair
hearing.
Thank you for your support,
Norma Chavez-PetersonAssociate Director
ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties
www.aclusandiego.org
Anastasio Rojas, Presente: May 31
Friday, May 31, 2013
6:30pm until 8:00pm
San Ysdro POE, by the old
pedestrian crossing
May 31, 2013 will be 3 years
since the murder of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas and to date, not a single Border
Patrol agent has been held accountable. Please join Maria Puga and her family
for a candlelight vigil and a call for justice and accountability.
En Mayo 31, 2013 van a ser 3 años desde el asesinato de Anastasio
Hernández Rojas y hasta la fecha, ni un solo agente de la Patrulla Fronteriza
ha tenido que rendir cuentas. Por favor únase a Maria Puga y su familia durante
una vigilia con velas y un llamado a la justicia y la rendición de cuentas.
If you would like to
support/endorse this event please inbox me so that I can add you to the list. Muchisimas gracias
a tod@s!
AFSC
Union del BarrioAbajo y a la Izquierda
San Diego Immigrant Youth Collective
Answer San Diego
ISO
Party for Socialism and Liberation
Forum New Immigration Reform Prop: May 7
Forum on the New Immigration Reform
Proposal
One step forward or two steps back?
One step forward or two steps back?
May 7, Tuesday
11:10 am - 12:45 pm
Room MS 462
11:10 am - 12:45 pm
Room MS 462
- Report on April 10 Washington Rally for Immigration Reform- Democracy Now
- Jesus Mendez-Carbajal SD Immigrant Youth Collective and Club MECHA
- Prof. Justin Akers Chacon, Chicana and Chicano Studies Department
Sponsored by City College Chicana and Chicano Studies Department
Señas de Amistad Beyond Borders: May 4
Señas de Amistad Beyond
Borders
A Binational Event
Come and unite at the border!
Break the cultural barrier!
A Binational Event
Come and unite at the border!
Break the cultural barrier!
Parque Binacional de la Amistad, San Diego
El Faro de Tijuana
Saturday May 4, 12 pm
Facebook
SeñasdeAmistadBeyondBorder
El Faro de Tijuana
Saturday May 4, 12 pm
SeñasdeAmistadBeyondBorder
May 1st
Opening Rally @ Civic Center 2
pm
(202 “C” Street – San Diego, CA 92101
March leaving Civic Center @ 3:30 pm
Closing Rally @ Chicano Park 5 pm
(202 “C” Street – San Diego, CA 92101
March leaving Civic Center @ 3:30 pm
Closing Rally @ Chicano Park 5 pm
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